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Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book Two , Metrum 6: (search)
Metrum 6:
A famous example of wickedness unimproved by attaining supreme power.
Meter: Sapphic hendecasyllable (- u - x - u u - u -
-).
The great fire at Rome of A.D.
64; rumors of an imperial arsonist were
spread by well-placed citizens. quantas
dederit ruinas: indirect question; the subject is the
relative clause (lines 3-7).
urbe . . . caesis: ablative
absolute. patribus: "senators."
fratre interempto: Tiberius
Claudius Caesar, son of Claudius, murdered by his adoptive brother in
A.D. 55.
matris effuso . . . cruore:
ablative of means with maduit. Refers to the murder of Agrippina in 59
A.D.: the rumor that the murderous son cast a coolly appraising eye over
his mother's corpse is repeated by Tacitus ( Ann.
14.3ff), but neither endorsed nor scotched by him.